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This literaly demands that Android apps use your Firefox browser for login instead of a builtin WebView. This prevents the apps from stealing your login credentials with phished data.

Seriously, what are you ranting about here? What does what you write have anything to do with a fundamental security requirement?

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I think I'm a little fired up about the Play Music -> YT Music migration, recent Google Photo storage restrictions, etc. What I see in TFA is another case of Google limiting choice in a user-hostile way. I happen to use Firefox and will be unaffected by the above, but Firefox is the only non-Webkit-based browser of any consequence. I'm incensed on behalf of people who use Epiphany or Brave or Konqueror or anything like that.

So you're mad about something entirely unrelated and equating this to user hostility. If you wanna use Brave or Konqueror, go for it. As long as it's your default browser you can log in. This just prevents an app from using an embedded webview.

I'm a big Firefox fan and I don't love google, but this is your standard hn 'circlejerk' of bashing google because google bad. Just like every single Amazon thread, regardless of topic, devolves into "yeah but comingling"

Google can be bad and still do the right thing for user privacy. In my opinion, they did just that.

many apps use webview for login as they have single sign-on. they dont want to re-implement logic so it works native or some other hacky things

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